to find out more visit i too early to. call the u.s. steps up its strong war in yemen fears rise that the strikes may be playing into the hands of al qaida or find more followers among the enemies of america's controversial anti terror strategy. thousands protest in experimental british fracking well with alarm the locals are not to risk their determined to prevent the environmentally devastating operational. people raise to protect their homes from flooding in russia's far east as water levels break all time records an arctic route travels through the most devastated areas and brings you firsthand account of the disaster.

live from our headquarters in moscow you're watching archie with me and he's now a top story the obama administration is willing to step up drone strikes in yemen even further despite no precise intelligence on terrorist targets there as according to a report from washington now this may well be sending chills down the spines of ordinary yemenis who bear the brunt of the unmanned attacks and even pushes some to join the ranks of al qaida. reports. recent research suggests that since two thousand and two was drone strikes in yemen have claimed the lives of over eight hundred seventy people ninety nine percent of those victims were killed under the obama administration thirty eight since late july alone washington claims most of them were suspected al qaeda terrorists but locals are painting a different picture it's hard to verify the exact number of civilian deaths i would most reports are often contradictory and the bodies of those killed in drone strikes are sometimes too badly charred to be identified in september last year

thirteen civilians were killed including women and children near the village of rada in eastern yemen u.s. officials were anonymously quoted as saying their intended target was completely missed and the incident was a mistake but no official acknowledgement or apology followed here's another example this time from two thousand and eleven conflicting reports blame a drone strike for the deaths of up to fifty people including around thirty civilians after a police station fell under militants control washington maintained its stance of not commenting on individual cases all these drone strikes in yemen at least seventy nine in total under president obama are done in the name of counterterrorism fighting al qaeda is offshoot on the arabian peninsula known as a q a p but there are suggestions that such attacks combined with civilian deaths to destroy homes and crippling poverty are actually drawing people closer to a q a p something even president obama acknowledges this is not to say that the risks are

not real any u.s. military action in foreign lands. risks creating more enemies and impacts public opinion overseas the very precision of drone strikes and the necessary secrecy often involved in such actions can end up shielding our government from the public scrutiny that a troop deployment invites. it could also lead a president and his team to view drone strikes as a cure all for terrorism the locals say as soon as the dust settles from drawn attacks q.e.p. arrives on the scene rebuilding homes and offering to pay funeral costs turning the u.s. policy into an ideal recruitment tool and although the strikes are conducted with the go ahead from the yemeni government every civilian death is likely to fuel resentment in the country meaning america may unintentionally be doing all kind us pure and recruitment on their behalf we spoke to

a body an advisor to yemen's prime minister who says that it's a clear cut fact that america's drone strategy isn't working otherwise its foreign phrase would be over by now. it does not simply come down to how many deaths have been caused by the drones we believe that if drone strikes were capable of putting an end to terrorism the us would have already ended terrorism and both in pakistan and in the rob a successful strategy cannot rely on sheer military force alone because it is much more than a security threat the end the line cause of terrorism or in the political social educational and most economic problems of our country we believe that bloodshed can only lead to more bloodshed the drone strikes cannot be a viable solution to this problem and now the drone strategy is finding much approval among americans with recent survey suggesting that up to sixty five percent say yes the strikes are broad but that reverses when asked about the use of

drones at home with less than a third supporting the opposition foreign policy expert robert naiman believes that public opinion would be the same if washington lifted the veil of secrecy. we should all be troubled about a secret war that's conducted according to secret law the obama administration refuses to disclose the legal memos purporting to explain why the policy is legal and constitutional american people aren't getting the information they would need to come to an informed decision about this policy and while you know we should hold the media to a high standard the government is making their job very difficult with the secrecy of the clampdown in information to crack down on whistleblowers the refusal to disclose basic information like who were fighting how many people have been killed how many civilians have been killed what's the legal justification the obama

administration is refusing to disclose any of this information and then makes it much harder for the media to do their jobs a failed jailbreak in egypt thirty six muslim brotherhood prisoners are killed during an escape attempt this comes amid the chaos last week with casualties nearing up thousand people prompting the country's foreign backers to reconsider their military aid to cairo that story coming up. but first a sleepy village in the british countryside is turning into a battleground between fracking giants versus anxious locals and activists thousands of protesters have to send it on the area we're drilling for gas has been halted on advice from the police citing america's tragic experiments with fracking residents fear the worst saying they're unconvinced by government assurances artie's tests are sylvia is there. well we're here in balcombe but this is the site of where an oil and gas company could drill is doing exploratory drilling you have the police over here trying to stop any possible protesters from getting in

a clearly fracking is a divisive a topic over here you've got residents debating the issue many of them pointing out to what they see will be the consequences if big companies go in to their neighborhoods to their area and the consequences the impact on climate on their water we spoke with one of those residents and talk to her about what her fears are if fracking does indeed happen now ministers who many of whom my industry invested who are saying that there is no evidence of contamination and that they can regulate this safely and that this is been going on for decades none of which that means are true on the beach or very the willfully lying or they haven't done the research there is ample evidence of desperate home that is done the seismic activity is triggered the water is contaminated and the bottom line is this industry this technology is an extreme eco sudden technology it cannot be regulated once you mess with the subterranean geology even the industry's own figures say

that all the wells will leak in the end it is just insane that this is being allowed to go ahead instead of reinvesting in safe renewable energy technologies that will give us energy security will give us last employment and one hundred people it's quiet right now because they've stopped operations having taken the advice of the police and more protesters will be coming to this area and right over there this is quite a common a sight around here were residents gather to argue fracking or to discuss with police when police officers come over to where they are camped out there they feel that. there's a way to. make this impact that will affect them then you're going to do if there's a growing how how was your evacuation plan to manage the u.k. government is looking to the example in north america in the united states where they say that the energy market has changed the bills have been lowered and this has increased a self-sufficiency david cameron has. said that it is this will also increase jobs as well as lower bills but clearly the residents here who are here camping out are saying that the positives do not quite outweigh the negatives that they think

fracking will bring to them reporting from balcombe on tests are cilia. now many people are in the dark over fracking and given the confusing nature of how it works that's no surprise so here's a simple explanation first off oil companies drill down to shell rock formations a kilometer or more underground then they drill horizontally through it once that's been done and you nears lower explosives into the hole and set them off to riddle it with cracks those cracks are then pumped full of pressurized water and a toxic cocktail of chemicals that tears matter apart isolating gas and oil from the shale before extraction so what's the catch you might ask well remember all those toxic chemicals they pumped in those can float right back up straight into your drinking water your lakes your rivers what's worse fracking results in an enormous amount of waste including radioactive water which then has to be dumped somewhere the toxic drill fluids also contaminate the ground slow the spreading

through the earth near the drill site and to top bad off a tremendous amount of highly protein greenhouse gases are released during the entire process which the environmental impact of conventional oil and gas exploration so those are the dangers but why isn't the government worried as much as others and each candidate for the u.k.'s green party believes it's because london is fully vested with big business. the links between. government and the fossil fuel industries fall to the. therefore you know there's got to be strong suspicions a vested interest is interest their work is no big surprise until we get a massive change in charge of government in this country. the priorities are really trying to be looking after the parties in these big companies i'm always focused on going to be the same across a lot of these and there is a lesson by this industry. and that's before. the whole country starts to realize

just how corrupt this government really is the thing people are just seeing through the thin tissue of lawyers and the connections with these big industries are becoming clearer and clearer got it i think this government is headed hopefully for one hell of a bloody nose come the next election coming up we've got a success story gone sour hung gary and farmers say they're being marginalized by e.u. agricultural companies since joining the bloc what was once a big income source for the country is not restricted to local markets. there is no relief in sight for the tens of thousands of people living in russia's far east battered by the worst flooding in more than a century water levels have already broken a historical record for the region are expected to reach peak only by the middle of the week around thirty thousand people have already been evacuated by emergency services and authorities say this could be just the beginning archies paul scott is

in the thick of events and talk to some of the victims. the scale is breathtaking as far as the eye can see floodwaters submerge swathes of eastern russia homes destroyed and livelihoods ruined water beneath me is three meters deep and all around you can just see rooftops and treetops sticking out from above the water we've even just come across one couple who were preparing their dinner on the roof some of the steadfast few who at the moment have refused to leave their homes this is the island of leyte the middle for most of the residents have been evacuated to safety forced out by the deluge but some have simply refused to leave the furring said to brave italian people to meet me to lexi yet with the two weeks now he's been living in his attic with his brother slava and cats because. we have to travel to dry land by boots to meet my wife who brings us food from the city and

i have to stay here to try and save what i can there's no other place we can live with a little later on we spot a couple they need to reinforce their roof and get help from the emergency services that we're travelling with it's an attempt to keep out the worst floods in the region in over one hundred years not everyone is prepared to wait it out of the thirty thousand displaced many have found themselves in temporary accommodation centers that have been hastily assembled in places like schools thousands of troops and emergency crews continue to arrive in the area to help tackle the disaster in the meantime there are fears rescue workers could be confronted with a major health crisis medics are warning the rising waters could be a breeding ground for diseases such as hepatitis and dysentery but for the time being local officials maintain they're getting all the support they need. they receiving a lot of help from emergency crews sent in by moscow troops and rescue workers who have to go to another a good many to give us

a hand. the authorities handling of the crisis has been praised up to now the worst could still lay ahead with more rain expected in the next few days one of the main areas of concern to the hydroelectric power stations which is straining against a critical mass of water threatening to send millions more tons down on to the already devastated region. the on the region the cyber currency bitcoin is taking baby steps towards the big money world declared legal tender in germany the first country to officially recognize the digital currency for legislative and tax purposes more on that and other stories after the break. well. it's technology innovation all the developments

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your authority live from moscow well global of fishel currencies have now got a new addition to the family germany has become the first country to officially recognize virtual bitcoins as legal tender valid for legal and tax purposes archie's host of venture capital k pilbeam now joins me with more katie what will change for germans using bitcoin now will the right about that it's legal means more transparency is it even i'm going to worry about breaking you know and i say that because since his introduction four years ago when pug's by these asians of money laundering drug smuggling there's been no no no actual case considered a tool but as i say it has had these accusations and it doesn't help the trust worthy of the coins that makes it more transparent it makes it more of a status symbol in terms of the quote but want to talk about taxes not significance of using on a personal level still tax free but businesses and corporations can use it for

transactions and operations and they will pay. of course times as it is is positive news will decline for the current say and what does it mean more specifically for the company itself or yeah point really dumb is getting the rubber stamp of approval right herron being the so-called powerhouse of europe is a positive thing and willie doesn't set presidents come we imagine the other european countries will follow suit and use it as this one that has been a roller coaster of a ride for the quine because under the small end of july at a time and with it it was illegal and then in the old days we had a court case in texas saying that that it was legal so there's never a dull moment in the world of the big clown i can tell you that much well it sounds like we will certainly be hearing more about this digital currency thanks so much katie bill being pilbeam from venture capital explain what this means for the digital currency. well it seems the x. files truth is out there the us opens up to shatter theories of u.f.o.

experiments taking place in a super secret military base in nevada had to r.t. dot com and check out what's really going on in area fifty one. also online russia's security services aim to bring down an underground computer network whose i don't minute he is serving as a magnet for criminals. egypt's government confirms its security forces have killed thirty six muslim brotherhood supporters that attempted to escape during a prison transfer officials claim the prisoners took an officer hostage but

suffocated. police used tear gas this as the death toll climbs to over eight hundred in clashes between supporters of ousted as well as president morsi and security forces they you now plans to review its five billion euro loan an aid program to the country with some u.s. senators also calling to cut military contracts egypt has been receiving military hardware and equipment from america to the tune of one point three billion dollars a year as reported that the ousted president's party of the muslim brotherhood may be declared a terrorist organization under it dips a new constitution to be announced on wednesday meanwhile the violence continues to wreak wreck the lives of families on both sides of the conflict as policy reports. the tears are the same as is the heartache and tragedy to families for is a changed by the violence engulfing egypt. to some said he died from two bullets

one was in his heart the police killed him they were standing on top of the roofs they burned some of the bodies and they burned some people alive. the muslim brotherhood believes that the christians in egypt have a hand in what is going on this talk that to beat me with stones one of them hit me with an axe in my head they put the church in fire and threw molotov cocktails at it sophia sun up till belong to the muslim brotherhood he was just twenty three when he was killed by police on wednesday iman is a christian he was protecting them on a street when he says muslim brotherhood leaders stormed it bashing him on the head with heavy sticks they're on opposite sides of the political divide but both families will forever carry the scars of this week's deadly violence. the violence started on wednesday when police moved in to break up protest camps set up by supporters of ousted president mohamed morsy hundreds were killed. dozens more died

two days later when security forces laid siege to a mosque where protesters. had taken refuge by sunday morning they'd cleared it but the confusion remains the government has announced plans to outlaw the brotherhood it's arrested and detained hundreds of its leaders and supporters among them romney's brother has some whom he hasn't heard from for days counting worry i called them yesterday was their last call between. getting me and him and he was in the house to the national security hospital and he told me that he's alone and he's worried that the policy will we've taken the army plan to do to do this plan to kill this these people but the same charge is leveled at the brotherhood critics say that they as much as the police planned to kill this is one of the churches that was destroyed this week more than fifty churches were burned and looted around the country what was valuable was taken what remains fear and uncertainty for

egypt's future but szymon hair shows me around what remains of his church he's placing his faith firmly in the police are just numbers of the battle i feel that the rest and in pursuing brotherhood leaders and starting an investigation and prosecution is a good sign in the street the muslim brotherhood is starting to have major losses announced in a state of emergency so all the police do have a chance. but a chance at wash many are asking as each hour brings with it more violence and uncertainty to a country seemingly on the path to civil war paula slee r.t. firearm city egypt. weiland is also escalating in egypt's border region of sinai twenty four policemen have been killed there in an ambush when each of the country's security officials to police minibuses came under attack as they were passing through a village near the town of rafah. flocking to the volatile region since the egyptian revolution and twenty eleven attacks on security forces inside my having

reached sharply since the ousting of mohamed morsi in the beginning of july. the un team has arrived in syria to start a long anticipated investigation into the use of chemical weapons in the ongoing on rest there both the government and rebels have traded accusations of deploying military grade poison a chemical strike near syria's largest city aleppo in march killed dozens of people prompting international condemnation. spanish fishermen have staged a protest over the placing of an artificial reef by gibraltar thirty boat sailed into the territories waters claiming the reef prevents them from fishing in the area the growth here says they shouldn't be working there in the first place this is the latest in the political spot between the u.k. and spain over the rock song front. what appeared as an economic blasting out first has now turned sour for hungary the country's farmers claim their profits have dwindled since the country joined the e.u.

as the market is flooded with cheap imported produce they now say they are ready to do anything to save themselves from bankruptcy as are to select reporters. at first glance it looks like a hungarian success story two decades ago this farma started his business with just four pigs nowadays he sells fifteen hundred every year and couple that with several hack tears of some flour and melon fields you may think this is a lot but andres says it's only just enough to keep his business afloat he says he'd have been far more excess if his country stayed away from the european union but now i can only sell my produce to local many markets transnational companies have flooded my country after a year session and they sell cheap meat imported from denmark and holland his production is cheaper but they feed their pigs with expired canned meat while we feed our pigs with corn and natural food for us the recession was a huge blow to the poor production industries one of the examples of how an already

ailing hungary an agricultural industry suffered an even greater decline after joining the e.u. and the numbers speak for themselves in the late one nine hundred eighty s. there were more than twelve million pigs in hungary primarily meant for export to other countries of the socialist bloc by two thousand and four when the country became a member of the european union it was only half of it left now ten years later the hitter stands at around three million while this particular cultural sector so dwindling numbers some others like sugar production even went bankrupt what was meant to be free market competition turned sour one would have passed was told to play by the e.u. has rules. the only industry which felt a positive effect from the e.u. accession was local wine making with its famous the kind bottle selling well across the continent but the country's political elites say this is a poor consolation for a country which has exceptional agricultural conditions where you're miserable the shadow of the atlanta we have everything to be europe's most powerful agricultural

nation we estimated that the ten million people of hungary can feed thirty million in europe but in the e.u. nobody wants. what we produce at the same time we've lost all our eastern markets where we were the primary exporters in the one nine hundred eighty s. we were told if the situation became so bad that at some point they couldn't get in government had to act swiftly. when the floodgates of cheap european farm produce were opened into hungary prices for our own milk poultry and meat crashed and tens of thousands of our farmers almost went bankrupt we were forced to implement the toughest legislation in the whole of the e.u. to protect our own producers of it one of those measures was the introduction of a moratorium on purchases of agricultural land by foreign nationals i mean fierce huge transnational companies would swallow up everything for themselves with no benefit for the local community and it expires next year and it doesn't understand

yet what that would mean for him and his colleagues but this time he wants to be prepared for a potential crisis and is forced to find new markets in the east ready to sell even to china if it means keeping the farm alive alexi russia ski reporting from hungary . asking questions that resonate to get the answers that matters because they just interview is up next. you know people in moscow say they're like home websites and facebook groups about the childfree lifestyle which i didn't believe until i saw the cover for the aug twelfth copy of time magazine yes childfree is no real thing sadly basically these

are people who have started a cool trend of not having children and using their time and resources completely for themselves you know if you don't want to have kids that is your business and i really couldn't change your mind even if i wanted to but there are people all over the internet who are just swimming in their own self-satisfaction like pigs in slop because they are part of the no kids trend the sickening part about this trend or should i see mentality is that these people glow in adore themselves for being too selfish to give their time and money to a child oh i'm the center of the universe and i'm proud of it. this is an extremely antisocial and destructive mentality to adore yourself for contributing nothing to anyone else nothing to society and nothing to the future but wait let me put it this way if your life is shopping wearing ironic t. shirts starbucks and texting on your i phone about your stupid feelings that maybe is for the greater good the church childfree but that's just my opinion.

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